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It’s the end of another tiring day at school and you still have plenty of tasks to complete, including responding to that angry email from a parent that you have avoided for almost 24 hours, lesson planning for next week,…
Tragic events, wouldn’t you agree? Now think about a teacher helping a child process and handle these complex issues, all while teaching a large group of students, completing paperwork, grading papers, attending meetings, and managing your own life. Teachers are…
It’s a new school year and there are only two things that generally matter for families: 1) Who is my child’s teacher, and 2) What other kids are in my child’s class? Putting the friends topic aside, let’s focus on…
In your day-to-day life, you have likely encountered Artificial Intelligence (AI). Perhaps it was while shopping, scrolling through social media, or at work. AI’s capabilities are remarkable, and they only continue to get more complex by the day. In my…
Back in about 2016, “giant” games were all the rage in classrooms. Giant Jenga, Giant Kerplunk, Giant Checkers, and so on. Traditional games were coming to life in larger sizes, and I got on the bandwagon with a twist on…
Over the course of my first decade or so in education, I admittedly had little knowledge on what was happening with the little friends down the hall from me in the Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade classrooms when it came…
If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. Let’s have a few laughs then educator friends. I had some time today and was inspired to write about common teacher-y things that we encounter. Relax, it’s not about anyone in particular. Except if…
In 2017 I wrote a blog called “Rethinking Morning Work,” and it advocated for teachers to rethink how we started our mornings with students. I proposed shifting from traditional morning work (worksheets, problem of the day, etc.) to “Morning Choice,”…
I was recently in a fruitful Twitter thread conversation where the use of acronyms were being discussed, and there was a comment from an individual who said that acronyms are “devices to get students through tests, not to prepare them…
I recently posted a video with one of my 5th grade Ambassadors doing a Greeter training (click link to see the video). This prompted a lot of questions about Ambassadors, Greeters, and how I set this all up. For all…
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